Execute a Git hook by branch

Git Many times I’ve been working in several projects when deployment of different webs according to a branch are necessary. Finally I just wrote a tiny Git hook script that helps me out with this matter, I hope it could help you as it does to me.

By example, for branch master I need that every time someone pushes commits to it, changes deploys in /path/to/my/deployment/unstable, and if branch stable is pushed, then changes are deployed in /path/to/my/deployment/stable.

The script I wrote uses the post-update hook, and cut to “parse” the revision name and provide the branch name, then I can use that name to set the path of the repo. After that I check if that directory exists, and then change the GIT_DIR to that path. Finally I change the position to that path and execute a simple git pull specifying the name of the branch.

Feel yourself free to use it.

#!/bin/bash
#
# An example hook script to prepare a packed repository for use over
# dumb transports.
#
# To enable this hook, rename this file to "post-update".

BRANCH=`echo $1 | cut -d '/' -f 3`

if [ $BRANCH == 'master' ]; then

  STAGE='unstable'

else

  STAGE=$BRANCH

fi  

STAGE_PATH=/my/stage/path/$STAGE/

if [ -d $STAGE_PATH ]; then

 GIT_DIR=$STAGE_PATH/.git
 cd $STAGE_PATH
 git pull origin $BRANCH

else

 echo 'Stage path for '$STAGE' not found'

fi

exec git update-server-info

6 Comments

fitorec says:

August 20, 2012 at 10:51 pm

Interesante yo ahorita lo que ando buscando es un buen sistema de ganchos que me ayude a actualizar un sitio con la acción post-pull.

Respecto al script veo que defines una variable STAGE_PATH, creo que el valor de esta lo puedes hacer dinamicamente y con esto reutilizas mas tu script, típicamente yo suelo ocupar la instrucción:

PATH_SCRIPT = $(readlink -f "$0" | xargs dirname )

En el caso especifico de git, puedes ocupar:
git rev-parse --show-toplevel

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fitorec says:

August 20, 2012 at 10:55 pm

También puedes ocupar la variable $GIT_DIR.

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Basilio Briceño says:

August 21, 2012 at 11:01 pm

Gracias por el comentario, muy buen tip, en este caso puse un path absoluto como ejemplo, por que puede haber casos donde el path sea diferente a la ubicación actual.

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